ad meliora

been thinking about love letters to nature

One day, all this late-night studying will pay off

If I just keep repeating this to myself in a Tommy Shelby voice maybe I will get my shit together

2.12.25 • early morning phonetics, thick fog, and writing xmas cards.

11.14.25 | struggling on how to best maximize my break / studying

i submitted my final PhD application monday night. there's still a long road ahead and i'm already having stress dreams about interview invites, but at least i'm done with the part where i write 17 slightly different versions of my statement of purpose.

“Time spent reading is always time stolen. Like time spent writing, for that matter, or time spent loving. Stolen from what? Let’s say, from the duty of living. Which is probably why the subway—this stinking symbol of the duty of living—is the world’s largest reading room”

I very much agree with these suggestions. Forcing myself to write was the way I could finally start to become an active rather than a passive user of the target language.

and thus begins the last semester of my masters degree :o

study session at a local bakery today !! There’s some construction happening near were I live and the noise is just insane 🤧🤧

9.17.25 | cramming to wrap everything by the end of the week… at least I have my silly girl for company